June 26th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk This piece of utter retardation just popped up on my radar; and, after a solid round of bashing my head against my keyboard, I was compelled to comment. The short version is, Chris Anderson at Wired is making the argument that the availability of enormous clouds of data will allow scientists to eschew the scientific method and just pull conclusions from correlations within “the cloud.” His main argument for this, Google doesn’t have a proper model of why PageRank works, but it does so, there you go. Ars Technica provides a better rebuttal of the scientific points that I feel like writing; so I highly suggest that you read that. But I do have some comments I’d like to make. To start, why, for the love of Ahura Mazda, must every Web 2.0 dork conflate Google with the rest of the gods damned universe. First, Google is an advertising company, nothing more, nothing less. The sooner you nerds realize that everything that comes out of Google Labs is directed at creating a pool of eyes to view those ads, the less disappointed you’ll be when reality comes crashing down. Second,
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November 29th, 2007, by The Angry Drunk Today’s particular hangover has blunted the all-encompassing rage a bit; so even I have to admit that this piece by Cory Doctorow in InformationWeek is dead on. It probably explains why I have a grand total of 6 MySpace friends; and of those, one is mythical proto-hominid and one is a presidential candidate. Or it could be that winos aren’t known for their computer savvy. Note to self…check if drunkspace.com is taken.
May 29th, 2007, by The Angry Drunk This has to be a joke. Just when I thought that “reality” television had reached its zenith (or is that its nadir) those rascally Dutch go and kick things up the proverbial ‘nother notch. I will not rest until we have either a televised live execution, or full on gladiatorial combat to the death on prime-time network television.
May 23rd, 2007, by The Angry Drunk I just ran across this via Violent Acres. While the tone is sarcastic, the theory is actually dead-on. This is what I was getting at in my post a while back.
May 8th, 2007, by The Angry Drunk Just read the article on the Huffington Post. I suppose I should make some comment on our culture of violence or something; but honestly I can’t stop laughing.
May 7th, 2007, by The Angry Drunk Well, thank the gods for this one. I know that of all the dystopian futures available; Gattaca was the one that I was worried about the most. Now, can we get cracking on the Global Climate Change ones…please.
April 25th, 2007, by The Angry Drunk Wow, John Welch sums up my thoughts on the gun control aspect of the VA Tech shootings better than I could.
July 22nd, 2006, by The Angry Drunk The Daily Show once again manages to put issues in focus better than the mainstream media, via Crooks and Liars.
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